Radarr problem with root folder

General Discussion
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I have installed Radarr via dietpi launcher and I got error when set it up:

Unable to add root folder
Folder is not writable by user radarr

I have tried to point to my /mnt/ssd1/media/movies but it is not working.

How to add it?

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Can you share following

ls -la /mnt/ssd1/media/movies
lsblk -o name,fstype,label,size,ro,type,mountpoint,partuuid,uuid
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dietpi@C4NAS:~$ ls -la /mnt/ssd1/media/movies
total 152
drwxrwxr-x 38 martin martin 4096 Sep 27 08:14  .
drwxrwxr-x  9 martin martin 4096 Sep 28 02:39  ..
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 25 10:38 '2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)'
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 25 11:30 'A Good Day to Die Hard (2013)'
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 26 00:40 'Apocalypse Now (1979)'
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 26 00:43 'CODA (2021)'
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 26 00:46 'Death on the Nile (2022)'
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 26 01:53 'Die Hard (1988)'
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 26 02:15 'Die Hard 2 (1990)'
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 26 03:23 'Die Hard With a Vengeance (1995)'
drwxrwxr-x  2 martin martin 4096 Sep 26 04:48 'Dune (2021)'
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 26 04:52 'Elvis (2022)'
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 26 04:59 'Everything Everywhere All at Once (2022)'
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 26 06:05 'Ghostbusters Afterlife (2021)'
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 26 06:19 'Hamilton (2020)'
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 26 07:22 'Joker (2019)'
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 26 07:25 'King Richard (2021)'
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 26 07:25 'King Size (1988)'
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 26 07:41 'Lawrence of Arabia (1962)'
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 26 08:14 'Live Free or Die Hard (2007)'
drwxrwxr-x  3 martin martin 4096 Sep 26 09:28 'Léon The Professional (1994)'

lsblk -o name,fstype,label,size,ro,type,mountpoint,partuuid,uuid
NAME     FSTYPE LABEL  SIZE RO TYPE MOUNTPOINT PARTUUID                             UUID
sda                    1.9T  0 disk
└─sda1   ext4          1.9T  0 part /mnt/ssd1  673d1e88-01                          ad62a591-7aa6-4fc6-8a36-b7ac1a59db9d
mmcblk0               28.9G  0 disk
└─mmcblk0p1
         ext4         28.9G  0 part /          47aa7b94-01                          84a23f99-fa00-4f15-abf8-3430c6169475

As I am going to install sonarr and lidarr to how to make more global solution that all have access to my /mnt/ssd1/media folder?

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your entire disk is owned by user/group martin. Means this user or member of this group can write to this directory only. Therefore, Radarr has permission issues.

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Understand, so How to change /mnt/ssd1/media to root or dietpi so radar and other soft do not have problems?

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should Radarr be able to access existing sub folder or only /mnt/ssd1/media/movies to create new stuff ?

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Only /mnt/ssd1/media/movies

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theoretically following should do

chown martin:dietpi /mnt/ssd1/media/movies

Changing the group to dietpi as Radarr should be member of this group already.

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Awesome that worked like a charm. Thx.
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